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How to understand all the Intel chip types?
techidave:
Don't you just miss the Pentium structure? P4 2.8 is faster than a 2.6 etc.. :D
f0dder:
Don't you just miss the Pentium structure? P4 2.8 is faster than a 2.6 etc.. :D-techidave (November 15, 2010, 04:56 AM)
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...but was a P4 2.8 GHz faster than an Athlon64 2.4 GHz? Also, keep in mind that not all chips branded "Pentium 4" are the original P4 core type, afaik.
superboyac:
JavaJones dropping some epics lately!
Thanks, that's a good way to think about it. I'll be using that.
rgdot:
Just buy the most expensive one in the shop and be done with it :P
PS I agree, the naming is confusing. I definitely saw i5s in the market before i3s so it really does have to do with sneaky marketing too.
Stoic Joker:
Anyway wasn't the Windows Performance Index supposed to help with all this BS? Why don't we see those scores advertised with new PCs at this point?-JavaJones (November 15, 2010, 03:30 AM)
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I'd love to know that one myself. But if you look at the WPI of most budget (or business) Win7 machines (frequently 3 or less) it's probably too hard to sell/explain why machine X doesn't really totally suck because the slow part (which sets the score...) isn't really relevant/detrimental to the required application/intended usage.
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